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[RocksInMyHead]

How much CO2 is released in a volcanic eruption?

Not that much. Total CO2 emissions for all volcanoes around the planet are estimated at less than 0.5 gigatons per year. Humans generate around 35 gigatons of CO2 per year.

For some perspective, the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption put out ~10 million tons of CO2 over its 9 hour eruption. Humanity takes 2.5 hours to do the same. That doesn't sound so different, but consider that an eruption on that scale is finite in duration and only happens about once every 10 years. Humans put out 10 million tons of CO2 every 2.5 hours 24/7/365.

Volcanoes Can Affect Climate | U.S. Geological Survey

www.usgs.gov

 

[Halbhh]

How much CO2 is released in a volcanic eruption?

Good question and while it depends on the volcano and the eruption, we can notice something in general.

Here's the size of human CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels:
"Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels and industry were 37.12 billion metric tons (GtCO₂) in 2021.."

Annual CO2 emissions worldwide 1940-2022 | Statista

Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels and industry were 37.12 billion metric tons (GtCO₂) in 2021.

www.statista.com

So, once you realize how much humans cause, then you can see how it compares to all volcanoes combined:

"Human activities emit 60 or more times the amount of carbon dioxide released by volcanoes each year. Large, violent eruptions may match the rate of human emissions for the few hours that they last, but they are too rare and fleeting to rival humanity’s annual emissions. In fact, several individual U.S. states emit more carbon dioxide in a year than all the volcanoes on the planet combined do." -- https://www.climate.gov/news-featur...-carbon-dioxide-volcanoes-or-human-activities

 

[Whyayeman]

How much CO2 is released in a volcanic eruption?

It turns out - not very much. Much less than human activity. Anyway it is not relevant because we can do absolutely nothing about it.

On the other hand we can reduce human production by giving upburning fossil fuels, the real cause of our woes.

 

[Always in His Presence]

nvm

 

[Whyayeman]

nvm

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[Always in His Presence]

On the other hand we can reduce human production by giving up burning fossil fuels, the real cause of our woes.

Calling for an end to the airline and shipping industry would destroy the worlds economy.

It takes fossil fuels to mine and develop batteries for vehicles, so we would have to eliminate the production of electric cars also.

What then? Back to horses and sailing?

 

[variant]

Calling for an end to the airline and shipping industry would destroy the worlds economy.

It takes fossil fuels to mine and develop batteries for vehicles, so we would have to eliminate the production of electric cars also.

What then? Back to horses and sailing?

We have the option to try to rethink the way we do things or we can accept our fate that we are yeast in a wine barrel destined to poison our environment until we all die.

Pretending that everything is fine certainly doesn't help and we've already had about four decades of that.

 

[Always in His Presence]

We have the option to try to rethink the way we do things or we can accept our fate that we are yeast in a wine barrel destined to poison our environment until we all die.

Pretending that everything is fine certainly doesn't help and we've already had about four decades of that.

Stopping the entire worlds movement and economy will not advance anything.

The problem is there are no current viable options to fossil fuels and their byproducts

You understand that the computer or device you just posted in this forum on is made of fossil fuels or its byproducts.

I understand what you are saying and actually agree with most. But there are no practical alternative in real life and until there are, we would be insane to end the use of fossil fuels.

 

[variant]

Stopping the entire worlds movement and economy will not advance anything.

The problem is there are no current viable options to fossil fuels and their byproducts

You understand that the computer or device you just posted in this forum on is made of fossil fuels or its byproducts.

That's not what I'm suggesting. I'm saying that we need to rebuild the world economy into something more sustainable and we need to start as if the right time to start was forty years ago.

Or, we need to start geoengineering the planet to deal with the climate upheaval.

We're probably going to end up doing both anyway, it's just a matter of what the second is going to cost in terms of effort and lives.

Or, alternatively we can wait until the damage is catastrophic to start dealing with it. That seems to work out well throughout human history.

 

[Always in His Presence]

Or, alternatively we can wait until the damage is catastrophic to start dealing with it. That seems to work out well throughout human history.

When exactly throughout human history has man caused catastrophic damage to the earth?

 

[variant]

When exactly throughout human history has man caused catastrophic damage to the earth?

There was the damage to the Ozone layer. And we're currently already causing one of the great extinction events. However, I was talking about us causing catastrophe to humans themselves not the earth.

The poor history I was talking about is humanity waiting until catastrophe hits us to act.

Sorry to be vague.

 

[Always in His Presence]

The poor history I was talking about is humanity waiting until catastrophe hits us to act.

What catastrophe has hit us? When did this happen?

I was alive and well during the ozone freak outs. Well nothing happened. Certainly nothing even closely resembling a catastrophe.

 

[DaisyDay]

...we are yeast in a wine barrel destined to poison our environment until we all die.

Great, evocative metaphor!

 

[QvQ]

Arizona and California had record breaking wet cold weather from June 2022 to May 2023.. Arizona had an inch of rain in May which hasn't been recorded since 1931. Last winter was cold with blizzards all across the northern tier.
So, nothing is said about the wet cold years. It doesn't fit the narrative.
cold = dry
warm = wet
There have been periods of time when the planet was warmer and wetter. There are fossil ferns in Northern Nevada where it is now dry desert
There have been periods of intense cold ..glaciers.

 

[comana]

Arizona and California had record breaking wet cold weather from June 2022 to May 2023.. Arizona had an inch of rain in May which hasn't been recorded since 1931. Last winter was cold with blizzards all across the northern tier.
So, nothing is said about the wet cold years. It doesn't fit the narrative.
cold = dry
warm = wet
There have been periods of time when the planet was warmer and wetter. There are fossil ferns in Northern Nevada where it is now dry desert
There have been periods of intense cold ..glaciers.

Did you miss all the news coverage of extreme snow in the Sierra Nevada? Seems like they do talk about wet cold And it is all part of the extreme weather patterns we are seeing resulting from overall heating of the earth.

 

[Always in His Presence]

Did you miss all the news coverage of extreme snow in the Sierra Nevada? Seems like they do talk about wet cold And it is all part of the extreme weather patterns we are seeing resulting from overall heating of the earth.

The earth is experiencing overall heating and that heating is causing record low temperatures?

How interesting

 

[Landon Caeli]

How much CO2 is released in a volcanic eruption?

CO2 produced each year by volcanic activity:

• Mid ocean ridges - 97 million tons
• Inactive volcanoes - 66 million tons
• Volcanic lakes - 94 million tons
• The total active volcanoes - 117 million tons
• The total degassing volcanoes - 271 million tons.

Equals 645 million tons produced annually.

CO2 emitted each year by man:

• 29 billion tons

How Much CO2 Does A Single Volcano Emit?

Does humanity really drive the climate on Earth? Or is nature fully in control?

www.forbes.com

 

[Landon Caeli]

According to the article, man emits 28.3 billion tons more CO2 than volcanoes do annually.

 

[comana]

The earth is experiencing overall heating and that heating is causing record low temperatures?

How interesting

I am not referring to record cold but record snowfall that results from more moisture during the winter. This is a result of the warming seas. Now we are experiencing an excessive heat in the northern hemisphere during summer. Arctic permafrost is melting.

 

[QvQ]

Most of the "true believers" I have met who believe in "climate change" live in climate controlled buildings in cities.
Do you know the Date of the First Killing Frost in your area for the last 5 years? Do you know the date of the Last Killing Frost in your area for that period?
Do you know how much rainfall you received in June or December for that time period?
Last winter broke my records for the past 50 years for early/late frost, cold and precipitation.
This year is back to normal..so far.
It is also normal to have people from Vermont move to Arizona and then scream "Climate Change! It is 103 degrees" Well yeah, This is Arizona. It is always 103 degrees in July and has been in all of recorded history.
It isn't one degree hotter than it has been in this area since records have been kept or even a .001% hotter. Just normal so far.